Question about finding nbsp on the page

[Alexium 67]

Is it possible to use find function (Ctrl+F) for find nbsp on the page? If I'm right that symbol is "copyable". But Pale Moon tries to find common spaces if I paste nbsp to the search textbox. Is it feature easy to add in future releases?

Thanks.

[moonbat]

Easier to search the page source. Just select 'View page source' from the rightclick menu on the page, then search the editor that pops up for the html.

[Alexium 67]

View page source may be non optimal if I use search in a text fields in some web text editors. There are some special web tools for the work with the text. Yes, I know, there are other workarounds already. But it will be more comfortable if Pale Moon will support nbsp input.

I don't know what kind of code define this feature and how do it hardcoded. So it may be too many human work to implement it to Pale Moon.

[therube]

On a "rendered" page, there is not going to be any   to be found, no?
Only what it represents, which is going to be space(s).
To the rendered page,   is a space, no?


nbsp_test.html:

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<div style="width:45px; height:45px; border: solid thin red; overflow: visible">
    Hello&nbsp;There
</div> 

<br />

<div style="width:45px; height:45px; border: solid thin red; overflow: visible">
    Hello There
</div>

<br>
<div>
    Hello There You Swine
</div>

<br>
<div>
    Hello&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Swine
</div>

[therube]

Maybe you could create a bookmarklet to search the page (source) for   highlighting those entries in the rendered page.

[Alexium 67]

I can't understand about the "rendered" page. Some page (Discord web chat for example) can show me nbsp. Yes, it rendered as space. But it will be nbsp in the clipboard if I mark it and copy. That copy I can paste to any third party editor (MS Word for example) and it will be pasted as nbsp.

But I can't re-find it on the page using search feature. Pale Moon is not support nbsp input probably

[Moonchild]

Why are you wanting to search for a whitespace character (breaking or non-breaking) anyway? What exactly is the point?

[Alexium 67]

Text editing in a web based tools mostly. Editing text with some errors. Translating text. It is the point. But I don't want be too pushy. This is my humble suggestion.

[Moonchild]

I'm afraid not treating whitespace as whitespace would break searching for the more common case...
word[space]anotherword and word[nbsp]anotherword should both come up as a result if you search for "word anotherword"; that precludes searching specifically for whitespace/nonprinting characters.
So I'm afraid I won't be taking this suggestion.

[therube]

This (bookmarklet) will search for "nbsp" (case sensitive) in the page source (& display an alert).

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javascript:if(document.documentElement.outerHTML.indexOf("nbsp") > -1) {  alert("NBSP!!!"); } else {  alert("NO nbsp"); }

So now, all you have to do is to get it highlight said found objects' location on the web page itself .

And of course you could change it from searching for "nbsp" to " " or whatever...
(Suppose you'd actually want nbsp; and with that, you can see that nbsp; is even used on this page [as   html-code, in addition to the textual "word" versions displayed here].)

[therube]

Maybe you can do something with userContent.css?


You can do something like this to "highlight" mailto: & .pdf "links".

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a[href^="mailto:"] {
  background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,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) !important;
  background-position: left center !important;
  background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
  padding: 7px 0 7px 20px  !important;
}

a[href$=".pdf"] {
  background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,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) !important;
  background-position: left center !important;
  background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
  padding: 7px 0 7px 16px  !important;
}

Maybe something similar can be done to "highlight" nbsp; ?